Trump says Jeanine Pirro "made a mistake" and "choked" on Reflecting Pool vandalism case
(AP) - President Donald Trump said Monday that U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro "folded like a cheap umbrella."
The president reiterated his disappointment with Pirro for a court filing in which her office blamed a contractor's shoddy work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool rather than vandalism.
"I guess she choked. I don't know what the hell happened" Trump said, later adding that the former Fox News host "folded like a cheap umbrella" in moving to drop criminal charges against the former Olympian accused of deliberately damaging the pool.
Trump refused to say whether he'd move to fire Pirro. But he also acknowledged that the contractor was "rushing" to finish the project before July 4, which didn't ultimately happen.
And he suggested he "didn't know" the contractor working on it, contradicting his own comments from April when he said he chose the company involved since it had performed work at his golf course in Virginia